The ggplot2 package contains a vast number of functions for creating a wide variety of plots. It would take an entire book to cover it all—there are already several that cover it—so I cannot attempt this here. In this chapter, I will only try to give you a flavor of how the package works.
The ggplot2 package
is loaded when you load tidyverse
, but you can always include it on its own using
library(ggplot2)
The Basic Plotting Components in ggplot2
Unlike in R’s base graphics, with ggplot2 you do not create individual ...
